A captivating exploration of the code of honor and ethics that governed the samurai warriors in feudal Japan. The author's book aims to provide Western readers with an in-depth understanding of the principles and values that shaped the samurai's way of life. Nitobe delves into the historical and philosophical aspects of Bushido, which refers to the "way of the warrior." He explores various elem…
Bushido quite literally means "the way of the warrior", and this is the general term for any one of a number of different codes adopted by Japan's warrior elite the samurai from the Middle Ages to the modern period. The golden age of samurai and bushido was already long gone by the time Inazo Nitobe penned his work "Bushido: The Soul of Japan," but its values remained. Nitobe evoked the eight …